Table of Contents
1 Outside Are the Dogs and the Sorcerers
You've Come Back to Me 5
The Two Witnesses 6
Who 7
In This Order 9
Hurry 10
Mushrooms 11
The Invisible Passenger 12
This Is Not a Poem/Fairy Tale 14
How New a Summer Night 15
That Men Should Kill One Another 16
The First Trumpet 17
At the End of the Text, a Small Bestial Form 18
The Emptying of the Censers 20
Canto One 22
Barbed Wire 26
Beast of the Sea 27
To Do 28
Perspective 30
Hair 31
The Second Trumpet 32
2 At the End of the Text, a Small Bestial Form
Beast of the Sea 35
Boy in Park 36
Beati mortui 37
Room 38
Masks 40
Game 41
The Invalid 43
Lottery 44
Rondeau 46
Milk Tree 47
The Woman Escapes 48
Binoculars 53
The Third Trumpet 54
A Dog, About to Pounce, Looks Back 56
For the Young Woman I Saw Hit by a Car While Riding Her Bike 57
3 That Men Should Kill One Another
Cecidit, cecidit Babylon 63
The Book of Life 64
Twentieth-Century Poetry 66
Abel de Larue, 1582 69
The Cure 70
Six Days 74
Comedy 75
Ativan 77
The Second Death 78
The Common Cold 79
K- 82
Outside Are the Dogs and the Sorcerers 83
Midnight 84
Beast of the Sea 86
4 A Dog, About to Pounce, Looks Back
Beast of the Sea 89
Oblivion 90
May Morning 91
Fiftieth Birthday 92
Of the Dead White Men 93
Tall Grass 95
Helicopter 96
Fantasy/Sci-Fi 97
Christ Appears in a Mandorla Enclosed by a Cloud 99
Door 100
The Martyr's Motel 101
The Accident 103
Ivan 105
The First Resurrection 107
Recall the Carousel 108
Nine Herbs 109
Atmosphere 113
Over 115
Present Perfect 117
Acknowledgments 119
About the Author 121
